Cold War Night Life

Cold War Night Life is the 1982 debut album by Rational Youth, containing their most well known song, "Saturdays in Silesia". Long out of print, it was re-released by EMI on CD in 1997 after an e-mail campaign by fans. It was subsequently re-released by Universal Music in 2019.

Cold War Night Life
Studio album by Rational Youth
Released	March 1982
Recorded	1981–1982
Genre	New wave synth-pop
Length	47:54
Label	YUL Records
Producer	Pat Deserio
Rational Youth chronology
Cité Phosphore (1982) Cold War Night Life (1982) City of Night (1982)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	(4.5/5)[1]

The online magazine and record label, Cold War Night Life, was named after the album. In 2017, it released a tribute album, Heresy, that featured a number of tracks from Cold War Night Life performed by electronic artists from Canada, Germany, Australia, Sweden, Norway and the UK.

In 2019, Cold War Night Life was re-released in deluxe 2-LP and CD formats by Universal Music Canada.

Track listing

Original 1982 LP

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Close to Nature"	Tracy Howe, Bill Vorn	4:41
2.	"Beware the Fly"	Howe, Vorn	4:04
3.	"Saturdays in Silesia"	Howe, Vorn	4:21
4.	"Just a Sound in the Night"	Howe, Vorn	5:08
5.	"Le Meilleur Des Mondes"	Howe, Vorn	3:14
6.	"Ring the Bells"	Howe, Vorn	5:14
7.	"City of Night"	Howe, Vorn, Babette Duran	4:03
8.	"Dancing on the Berlin Wall"	Howe, Vorn	4:34

Additional tracks

Bonus tracks on initial 1997 CD version

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
9.	"Power Zone"	Howe, Vorn	3:39
10.	"I Want to See the Light"	Howe, Vorn	3:42
11.	"Coboloid Race"	Howe, Vorn	5:19

Bonus tracks on 2019 CD/LP reissue

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
9.	"Power Zone"	Howe, Vorn	3:39
10.	"Coboloid Race"	Howe, Vorn	5:18
11.	"Cité Phosphore"	Howe, Vorn, Duran	4:01
12.	"Saturdays in Silesia (Extended Version)"	Howe, Vorn	7:17
13.	"City of Night (Danse Mix)"	Howe, Vorn, Duran	7:11
14.	"I Want to See the Light"	Howe, Vorn	3:42

Personnel

• Tracy Howe - vocals, synthesizers
• Bill Vorn - synthesizers, vocoder, programming
• Kevin Komoda - synthesizers
• Mario Spezza - synthesizers on "I Want to See the Light" and "Coboloid Race"